Explore Singapore in Asia - Singapore Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

Singapore with its capital Singapur is located in Asia (Southeastern Asia, islands between Malaysia and Indonesia). It covers some 694 square kilometres (slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC) with 4,608,000 citizens. English, Malay (generic), Tamil and Chinese are the languages commonly used by the people in Singapore (consider regional differences).

Pictures from Singapur (Capital)

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About Singapore

The landscape features lowland and gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve. The average density of population is about 6,652 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical with hot, humid, rainy, two distinct monsoon seasons - Northeastern monsoon (December to March) and Southwestern monsoon (June to September), inter-monsoon - frequent afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. Potential threats by nature are NA.

To reach someone in Singapore dial +65 prior to a number. There are 1,852,000 installed telephones. And there are 6,652,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 MHz and 3G. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".sg". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz.

The country consists of 6 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Singapore

Singapore Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Singapore Tourism

Tourism Court
1 Orchard Spring Lane
Singapore 247729
Singapore

Phone: +65 6736 6622
Fax: +65 6736 9423

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Singapore

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Singapore is growing at an rate of 0.86% (or by 40,617 citizens). Each year 22,518 people enter this country (or 4.80 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 0.39%. Or an total increase of 18,099 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.